Diary of Joseph F.C. Rock Volume 12 [13 on spine]; Yung-ning to Ta-tsien-lu [Kanding], 1929 entitled 'Diary of Joseph F. Rock, Volume XII, from February 13th 1929 to June 3rd 1929.
Contains loose notes and maps.

Diary of Joseph F.C. Rock Volume 14 [15 on spine]; Nyorop’u to Nv-lv-k’o Lu-feng, 1929-1930 entitled 'Diary of Joseph F. Rock, Volume XIV, from September 1st 1929 to January 31st 1930.'
The diary contains a map drawn inside, extensive notes and loose notes on Naxi pictograms (inserted between pp. 188 and 189) and a photograph of Rock with Chinese and Western gentlemen.

Diary of Joseph F.C. Rock; Yunnanfu to Lichiang; January 13th 1935 to January 1st 1937
Also includes:

• June 14th 1951
• New Year 1953-1954
• January 30th 1954
• Sept 6th 1954
• New Year 1958-1959, including January 13th 1959
• January 13th 1962.

Includes loose air ticket and newspaper article and pasted in photographs of Rock including some with the plane on the Lijiang plain in 1936 (pp153-159) and others of ‘Viennese guests’ Herr Max Reisch and Herr Helmuth Hahmann (pp174-175).
There are some views drawn into the diary including more detailed sketches of Amichou (p22) and Chapa (p34). Also a description and brief sketch of the skull of Homo Sinanthropus or ‘Peking Man’ (pp103-104), refers to Professor Weidenreich.

Diary of Joseph F.C. Rock; April to May 1926; May 1933 to March 1934.
Joseph Rock’s diary covering the dates 23 April 1926 – 22 May 1926; includes:

• Notes on ‘Amnyi Machen’ [Amnye Machen]; Story of Dzambala and Notes on tribes around Amnyi Machen. (pp.3-22)
• Followed by list of pictures sent to Washington (p.22); Notes on diaries mailed in March 1927 (p.23);
• Notes on Yunnan literature (p.24)
  1 May 1933 – 28 March 1934 (pp.25-279; includes:
• lists of books and articles relevant to Yunnan and China;
• List of books in the Library of Joseph F. Rock (pp.57-72)
• Trunks left in cold storage in Hong Kong (pp.132-133) and trunks to be taken along (p.134)
• Monday November 13th 1933: “Alone as usual… As I looked out over the grey smoky landscape I pitied the Chinese to be forced upon them by outsiders the chaotic artificial life of the west. My mind wandered to far away Nda za gko to the lovely alpine meadows on the Likiang Snow Range [Yulong Xue Shan] where reigns eternal peace. In spite of all the glitter and good food and comfort, etc on this boat it is all artificial. Here one looses [sic] contact with the great spirit of nature. I am longing for a quiet spot where I can stay with my Nakhi boys and live in peace, where I shall not have to move again except when the great day comes when I shall go to my eternal rest. When I behold the women on this ship, artificial, all flesh and no soul I shudder when I think what their life must be; a decorated painted shell ever moving but getting nowhere except farther away from what should be the real life of contemplation and unselfishness.” (pp.152-153)
• Meeting Handel-Mazzetti in Vienna and discussing the government and Sacher (pp.219-222)
• Transcription/translation of a Dongba book donated by Handel-Mazzetti to the Natural History Museum in Vienna (pp.235-239)
• Brief discussion of a Dongba book donated by Frank Kingdon Ward to the British Museum (pp.261-262)
• Meeting with Walter Rothschild, January 1934 (pp.273-278)
• Letter in Chinese script pasted into the diary on p.279: ‘Letter from Y…gning announcing the death of my good old friend the Tsong Kwan, a descendant of the great Kubilai Khan’ [Kublai Khan]
• Chinese script (pp.281-298)

Diary includes a loose photograph of the Watson family taken in 1947, and loose page of Chinese script.

Diary has a '35' on its spine.

Diary of Joseph F.C. Rock Volume 23; March 20th 1932 – April 29th 1933
Includes:
Transcription of page from Naxi Dongba manuscript with translation by Arie Kok telling the story of the flood, pp. 111-115
Notes on Tibetan deities (pp.117-148)
Extracts of a Tibetan-English dictionary (pp.148-155)
Photograph of Rock age 5 with father and sister, 1889. (back cover).
Obituary of Ralph A. Graves (1882-1932), Rock's 'friend and counsellor' (pp.296-297)

Diary of Joseph F.C. Rock; from January 29th 1934 – January 1st 1935
Includes pasted in photographs that include:

• The Muli King (p.213) “The Muli King was murdered on the 2nd of the 8th moon or September 10th 1934”
• “My good friend the Tsong Kwan of Yongning, died on July 20th 1933” (p215)
• Christmas image (p.253)
• 3 taken at Hai tien in November 1934 that include Rock, Edgar Snow, [Mrs Snow?] and Nakhi [Naxi] men, (pp.260-263) “Edgar Snow, J.F. Rock, Ho-Chi hui and Chan Chung tien photographed at Hai tien, near Peiping, November 1934, in Snow’s compound – we had just returned from Wan shou shan”
• Pressed flowers taped in at back (p,299); “Violets from the tomb of Emperor Young lo of the Ming Dynasty, May 18th 1934, see page…”; “From the court of the T’ai ho tien throne room of Kienlung, May 1934”; “Leaf from the coffin of Emperor Francis Joseph I of Austria, Kapuziner Gruft, Wien, See Vol. 35” [JFR/1/1/20 has a 35 on its spine – could this be vol.35?]

Diary of Joseph F.C. Rock; 1936-1939
Also includes Christmas 1957
New Year 1957-1958
New Year 1959-1960
New Year 1961-1962
The diary has a few inserts including a calling card for Miss D.D. Williams, Kew, some notes in different languages, including Tibetan and possible Nakhi, a plant sketch, a list of diaries, volumes 1-9; a news cutting 'Books which can now be read' relating to Dongba text held in U.S. libraries; and between pp298 and 299, a diary page (from elsewhere) on which is pasted a photograph of J.F. Rock and his old friend Fred Muir taken in Hawai'i in 1913. There are pressed plants and photographs pasted in to the diary.

Diary of J.F. Rock Volume 4; Lan-Chou to Kokonor Babo, 1925
The diary is entitled “Kansu Province, Diary Vol. IV of Joseph F. Rock Director Harvard Arnold Arboretum Asiatic Expedition from August 31st in part to November 16th 1925. From Hsiangtang to Kokonor Babo and return to Sining.
Includes sheet of Chinese writing on Chinese paper and loose notes, including lists [of plants? Photographs?]

Joseph Rock's diary covering the years 1921-1923.
The diary includes Includes:
• Dec. 30th 1921 to May 10th 1922 – Journey from Chiengmai to Li-kiang, NW Yun-nan [with 5 loose photographs];
• Ascent of Lichiang snow range up to little over 17000 feet elevation
• Ascent of Lichiang Snow Range to an altitude of 16000 feet, August 27th 1922
• Vegetation on Likiang snow range in September
• Journey from Ta-li to T’eng-Yueh, September 23rd 1922 to October 9th 1922
• Journey from T’eng-Yueh to Lung-ling, October 19th 1922 to Oct 25th 1922
• Journey from T’eng-Yueh to Sadon in Burma, November 7th to 22nd 1922
• Tengyueh to Hsuehshan-ting, November 25th [1922?]
• Journey from Tzu-ku to Champutong on the Salwin, October 21st to November 1st 1923
• Trip to Chantabum from Bangkok, November 28th

Diary includes monograph on the Island of Palmyra and diary of “My trip around the World begun Honolulu, Sept 14 1913 on USA Transport Thomas”